| The goal of this research is to design an object-based middleware framework, which will facilitate the development of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce applications. With the rapid development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, e-commerce applications have become prevalent. However, the development of e-commerce applications today is considered expensive and risky because of the lack of large-scale reusability and interoperability of e-commerce applications. Many standard middleware frameworks exist, such as COM+, EJBs, and CORBA. However, they are too generic to support services for B2C e-commerce. To address this problem, I propose an object-based middleware framework, which will facilitate the implementation of B2C e-commerce applications by providing some of the main services that typically have to be implemented from scratch, such as customer information management, payment management, and order processing. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
